What you… or we.. Missed
By Jordan Shearer on Sep 8, 2008 in News
Sorry for not updating lately, I have been quite busy, and I’m guessing it would be the same with the other guys. Anyway, here is a large compilation of what has happened lateley.
Rock Band:
Moving Pictures was delayed, due to “Technical Difficulties”, and there is wide speculation that it was becuase of the instrumental on the album, “YYZ”. It is expected to come out soon. The Locksley pack hit consoles as the replacement DLC, with the songs “She Does”, “Don’t Make Me Wait”, and “All Over Again”. The band was realatively unkown, but was a top Myspace band and was an upcoming MTV artist of the week. All the songs were off of the band’s new album. The songs were all a dollar, and the pack is currently up, as well as is the PAX pack. Harmonix hit PAX with a few stage demo’s and some annoncements, including a new achievement that requires you to finish the endless setlist without pausing, as well as the PAX DLC pack, that includes artists that performed at the festival, like famed nerd rapper MC Frontalot (”Livin’ At the Corner of Dude and Catastrophy”), The man who penned “Still Alive”, Johnathan Coulton (”Skullcrusher Mountain”), and The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (”Shhh….”). The pack’s proceed’s are for child’s play charity, and are all a dollar. The pack was experiencing problems on the PS3 that caused it not to play, but those can now be fixed by re-downloading and instaling the pack or songs. An Offspring pack was leaked on LIVE, with the songs “Gone Away”, “Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)”, and “Self Esteem”. HMXSean has confirmed that Offspring DLC is in the pipeline.
A new patch also hit the 360, including updates such as fixing unhitable notes in songs, update of the Rock Band 1 music store, new gold star cutoffs, and details on transfering RB1 disc songs to your hard drive for use in Rock Band 2. To quote HMXSean on it:
Nominal fee of $4.99 (400 Microsoft points) required for export of Rock Band 1 soundtrack to compensate music licensors for expanded use.The following Rock Band disc tracks will not be available for export into Rock Band 2: * “Paranoid” as made famous by Black Sabbath, * “Run to the Hills” as made famous by Iron Maiden, and “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. In addition, the title update will also be released simultaneously in Europe. Tokio Hotel’s “Through the Monsoon” from the European disc release of Rock Band will not be available for export into the future European release of Rock Band 2. (* Indicates a cover song, all other songs are original master recordings.) Expanded usage rights for these particular tracks were unable to be secured from the music licensors for this feature.
The six upcoming albums were also announced, including The Foo Fighter’s “The Colour and the Shape”, Jane’s Addiction’s “Nothin Shocking”, Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Texas Flood”, Megadeth’s “Peace Sells.. But Who’s Buying?”, The Red Hot Chili Pepper’s “Blood Sex Sugar Magik”, and a special “Best Of” pack of No Doubt songs.
This week’s DLC comes in the form of an All That Remains 3 pack, featuring “Two Weeks” and “Chiron”, off of the band’s new album “Overcome”, and thier song “This Calling”. These songs, as well, are a dollar (80 MSP).
The release date of September 14 for the 360 was also confirmed through a Rock Band 2 commerical that has popped up on TV featuring AC/DC’s “Let There Be Rock”. The release dates for other consoles remain up in the air. Buuuut, speaking of AC/DC this little gem from the lead singer of The Darkest of the Hillsiade Thickets blog, shows “Shoot to Thrill (Live at Donnington)” as DLC in Rock Band 2. We can only hope that this means some AC/DC DLC.
Guitar Hero World Tour:
A lot of GH:WT news has come out as well, but let’s start with the confimed Smashing Pumpkins DLC pack for Wold Tour. The pack, joining “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” and “Today” on disc, will feature the single “G.L.O.W.” from thier upcoming album, as well as “1979″, and “The Everlasting Gaze”. The trailer below also confirms Billy Corgan as a playable character.
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Tool and Sting are officialy confirmed as well, while Sting brings The Police’s song “Demolition Man” to World Tour, and Tool brings 3 songs, “Schism”, “Parabola”, and “Vicarious”. If looks as though they won’t be coming to Rock Band anytime soon though, as Tool does not like MTV Networks, who owns Harmonix.
It looks as though The Cult’s “Love Removal Machine”, Los Lobos “La Bamba”, Muse’s “Assassin”, Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker”, Bullet for My Valentine’s “Scream, Aim, Fire”, Lucana Coil’s “Our Truth”, The Living End’s “Prisoner of Society”, MC5’s “Kick Out the Jams” and The Sex Pistol’s “Pretty Vacant” have been confimed as well.
I hope I haven’t missed anything.
Editors Note: Jordan, thank you! Been crazy busy and this is awesome.
YAY, finally something. At least we know that you guys are not dead.
ZED | Sep 8, 2008 | Reply
Is bullet with butterfly wings really confirmed?
Ferco | Sep 8, 2008 | Reply
thanks for the link guys. I kinda missed you guys too. I think you should really look into providing an rss feed. I dont see it really available on your site. It can be pretty valuable. Every post i write gets emailed to about 1500 people. And i just really like rss.
Brendan | Sep 8, 2008 | Reply
Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way” and Blondie’s “One Way or Another” were confirmed for GHWT. (You spelt confirmed wrong by the way. XP It’s not that noticable.)I said this in another post, but I didn’t have confirmation. They are in however.
Other than that, I’m glad that you got an article up. Good job compiling the information Jordan!
Mane | Sep 8, 2008 | Reply
something you forgot, http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/08/guitar-hero-iii-les-paul-support-pax-pack-fix-coming-to-ps3-roc/
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/08/metallicas-death-magnetic-album-for-guitar-hero-3-this-friday/
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/08/dem-o-matic-guitar-hero-aerosmith-and-nba-live-09/
chelo | Sep 8, 2008 | Reply
Dude, thank God your back!
I think its time to cover some Guitar Praise news lol
http://www.bingegamer.net/index.php/2008/bargain-gaming-guitar-praise-edition-thank-god/
PacoDG | Sep 9, 2008 | Reply
The link that PacoDG has, everyone go to it and view it. Cuz,… um ………………………………………… is that a joke? Just really? I know its real but come on.
ZED | Sep 9, 2008 | Reply
This has got to be a joke!
Cyrus | Sep 9, 2008 | Reply
Gotta be a joke… right?
By the way, One was FCed… twice. (Two different people.)
Also, local GH Community Mod, NikkiLove, will get a chance to play GHWT at a conference on the 10th. He’ll be posting information about the game on his blog on the GH Community Website and will also be revealing something new about the game. His post…
“9/9/08 - 8:26am EST: Today is the big day! Well, I was told to tell you dudes that I will be revealing something new about the game to the world, but what exactly, I have no idea. I was ensured that it was not only awesome, but in fact tastes like chicken…I wonder what it could be? Stay tuned”
Chicken? Now, what guitarist wears a bucket of chicken on his head?…
Mane | Sep 9, 2008 | Reply
Also JCirri, his staff, and some other representatives from Scorehero are “invading” Neversoft. So be checking over there later on today and this week cause there should be a good amount of information on that front, if it is anything like last year.
Conner | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
Yeah, they already put out pictures of the guitar mostly. They’re floating around the internet. The guitar is still detachable, but they changed it. NikkiLove described it as an HDMI port. (See the pictures and you’ll see what he means.)
Mane | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
Thank You Mane for that guitar info. I really really hate the Les Paul because of the detachable neck. If its a port then that will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER!
Had to do it
ZED | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
Yeah I saw it. Phr34k, one of the mods at Scorehero, said the drum kit is really solid and Toymachine on the Starpower Podcast said the vocal engine is pretty solid, but you can’t really screw vocals up.
Conner | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
A few more songs confirmed for GHWT by the Rolling Stone site.
Dream Theater - “Pull Me Under”
Filter - “Hey Man Nice Shot”
NOFX - “Soul Doubt”
Rise Against - “Re-Education (Through Labor)”
Steve Miller - “The Joker”
The Answer - “Never Too Late”
The Stone Roses - “Love Spreads”
Trust - “Anti-Social”
Wings - “Band on the Run”
We already knew “The Joker” and “Never Too Late” however.
Mane | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
Also, “Satch Boogie” by Joe Satriani, and “Stranglehold” by Ted Nugent, have been confirmed by NikkiLove over at the GH Communit Website.
Mane | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
Dream Theater
Conner | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
Oh, along with “Stranglehold”, Ted Nugent is a playable character. (We knew that though, right?) He rides in on a buffalo. XD
Mane | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
He was rumored in a survey, but other than that I had not heard any more about it till now. Mane, you simply win at getting information out before everyone. Mane for ConsoleHero Staff!!
Conner | Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
To be fair, I only get the information as fast as it appears on GH Community Website. Which is a setback when it needs to be updated (like now, XD) or other sites get the info faster.
Oh, and Ted Nugent will be a boss battle, but that was expected.
Mane | Sep 11, 2008 | Reply
Alright.. well the GH setlist is official now.. I’ll try to get an article up on that soon.
Jordan Shearer | Sep 12, 2008 | Reply
Seems that the second rumored setlist was right. I have nothing wrong against it. They could have done better, but overall I believe that GHWT will be a good band game.
Mane | Sep 12, 2008 | Reply
I keep seeing “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” under some of my posts, is my email in a spam filter or something
(Only some of my posts show up like that)
PacoDG | Sep 13, 2008 | Reply
Well… looks like Bullet With Butterfly Wings was pulled for a less drum friendly song by the Pumpkins…
LAME
BRING ON DOOMSDAY CLOCK DAMMIT
Clutchpenguin | Sep 13, 2008 | Reply
http://wii.ign.com/articles/909/909731p1.html#disc
Look on the list for Ted Nugent, it says something like ‘original guitar duel’. Now look at the bottom of the list.
I’m not gonna ruin it for you, you look at it your self. If that’s true thats just awesome.
ZED | Sep 13, 2008 | Reply
Yeah!! Willie Nelson!!! /sarcasm
Conner | Sep 13, 2008 | Reply
Well, there’s several things that you could mean ZED. Which one is it?
-Willie Nelson?
-Zakk Wylde Battle?
-Wings? *coughcough*paulmccartneycoughcough*
-The inclusion of Trust’s “Antisocial” despite being DLC for GH3?
My guess is the Zakk Wylde guitar duel.
Mane | Sep 13, 2008 | Reply